What should readers and audiences expect from the book?
It is OK to bring your whole self to your relationship with God. It is OK to to find and incorporate joy and humor and the things that you like. It is OK to bring those into your life even after you have experienced a really difficult time, life can still be lush and beautiful.
As a Black woman, what do you consider your superpower to be?
I have a saying on my desk that reads “if you’re not feeling everything you’re missing everything.” I never don’t want to be in touch with my emotions, whether they are good ones, whether they’re frustrating ones, whether they’re sad ones. I always want to honor what I’m feeling. Once I sit with it and make decisions and once I’m able to to know what I’m feeling and honor that, that would be my superpower.
In the book, your mother’s definition of what makes a good friend was “Jesus.” What is your definition of a good friend?
Someone who’s compassionate, empathetic, who cares about you, who makes you laugh, at the most difficult time. Somebody who can see the best in you and help you get there.
